Container
Installation:
Porcelain,
walnut wood,
acrylic glas,
metal fitting
2017.
Installation:
Porcelain,
walnut wood,
acrylic glas,
metal fitting
2017.
Container is an Installation consisting of a
Lego model containership made of glazed
porcelain and a vending machine made of
hickory wood and acrylic glass, which is filled with 3 cm big porcelain reproductions
of lego stones. The front glass is scratched
from the inside with the letters “there is no
sea behind this city.” This glass is exchangeable and is adjusted to every new exhibition
space.
The visitor is implicitly invited to autono-
mously buy a porcelain lego stone from the
machine for one euro. Through this action,
the work investigates the initiation process
by which, as a child, one autonomously
enters into the world of exchange of goods
for money.
The materiality of porcelain in globalized,
and modularized market holds further symbolic value as it is not only historically charged with being a long traded commodity
but also by the characteristics of the material itself. It is both extremely hard and fragile
at the same time. It can‘t be scratched but it
easily brakes when hit.
Container was shown at Rundgang 2017 at Städelschule, Frankfurt.
